Investment Risk Analyst

With our refreshed strategy, we’re building on our rich heritage and transforming our business to be more scalable and efficient, unlocking the capabilities needed for future success. This includes significantly investing in technology, streamlining the way we work and creating an environment where colleagues feel engaged, empowered and accountable; Location: London - Lombard Street Office
Workplace Type: Hybrid - 2 days in office and 3 days remote
Employment Type: 9 month Fixed-Term Contract
We have a newly created opportunity for a Senior Investment Risk Analyst to join our growing team within SJP’s Investment Directorate. This team provides independent oversight of the risks across SJP’s range of investment funds and acts as a key challenge partner to our investment managers and senior leaders.
As one of the UK’s largest Authorised Fund Managers, SJP delegates some investment decisions to external managers. However, we retain accountability for monitoring and understanding the risks for own funds to ensure excellent client outcomes. You will help strengthen our oversight by contributing to analysis, reporting, and due diligence activities, while also supporting an exciting transition from Aladdin to Bloomberg as part of a wider modernisation of our risk systems and processes.
You enjoy solving problems, asking the right questions, and speaking up when you identify a risk or improvement opportunity.
You’ll be adaptable and confident working in a fast-moving environment, with the ability to adjust reporting and analysis for different senior stakeholders. A natural collaborator, you will work closely with investment risk managers, quantitative analysts, and other teams across SJP to deliver high-quality outputs and good client outcomes.
Contributing to investment risk oversight across SJP’s UCITS fund range
Producing and evolving composite risk reports using internal tools and external platforms such as Bloomberg and Python
Running and interpreting multi-factor risk models, stress tests, liquidity analyses and other portfolio risk measures
Supporting due diligence on external third-party investment managers and reviewing their risk processes
Working closely with investment risk managers, quantitative analysts, Investment Research, Tech & Data, and Group Risk
Supporting the team as we transition from Aladdin to Bloomberg, improving the quality and efficiency of risk processes and reporting
Helping evolve the risk oversight processes in line with SJP’s governance, Consumer Duty expectations and continuous improvement culture
Experience across investment markets, particularly UCITS, liquidity risk and portfolio analytics
Hands-on experience with risk tools such as BlackRock, Aladdin and Bloomberg and ideally Python & SQL.
The ability to run, interpret and explain complex risk models, including stress tests and liquidity risk assessments
Experience contributing to risk reviews of external fund managers
Bloomberg PORT or BQuant for portfolio and risk analysis
Broader exposure across asset classes or investment risk methodologies
Experience or exposure in an investment or financial services environment
We reward you for the work you do, whether that’s through our discretionary annual bonus scheme that reflects both personal and company performance, competitive annual leave allowance (28 days plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase an additional 5 days), or online rewards platform with a variety of discounts.
Competitive parental leave (26 weeks full pay)
Private medical insurance (optional taxable benefit)
10% non-contributory pension (increasing with length of service)
Research tells us that applicants (especially those from underrepresented groups) can be put off from applying for a role if they do not meet all the criteria or have been on an extended career-break. As a business regulated by the FCA we would advise you to familiarise yourself with the conduct regulations and in particular consumer duty obligations prior to an interview with SJP.